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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1912)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 22, 19i 3 A 1 JSHDER HASJIMD STRUGGLE j GET-RICH-QOICK PLAN FAILS J Louis Peterson's $2,500 Home Will Burlington's Agent at Moorcroft ( Cost Him $4,C00 in the End. t HAS A' TRUSTING DISPOSITION His Carpenter Leaye 111m In the Larch When Home U Almost ' Completed Matrlal Mca Swoop Upon Rim. '1 With the savings of years Louis Peter son, janitor of Mason school, built him self a $2,500 home. It will have cost him 4,0W when it is finished. This Is be cause of his trusting disposition and the eculiar lien laws of the state. Peterson now has the house paid for except for $500, which he will pay in the near fu ture. ' . Peterson owned a lot at 2569 Mason street. He let .a contract to William Ahearn at $2,500. As the work on the building proceeded he paid Ahearn in in stallments until the contractor had re ceived $2,000. ' Ahcrn Abandons Building;. Then Ahearn abandoned, the building and left the city, being in financial straits. Peterson finished the work himself, hiring carpenters and other workmen, and thought his troubles were over. Then Barker Bros. Co., the Plat ner Lumber Co., and others who had furnished Ahearn building material, filed liens against the house. "Ahearn had not paid them for the material. In order to determine what his rights were Peterson sued the material men to nullify the liens. He lost the suit, and judgment for . the amounts claimed, to talling $1,600, was entered against him. Tries Scheme of His own. HIS SYSTEM WAS TOO C0USSE Would Sell Ticket to Chicago for a j Small Sam and Have Paaaenaer Return It from Omaha "nnnard." I VDamages Are Asked TP . ; i for False Arrest : Damages , of .$5,000 for . false arrest ' are I asked of" Abraham Marks, head of A. Marks et Co., merchandise brokers, by Gerald E. Kerrln, former manager of the concern, in a suit Instituted In district court yesterday. The suit is the outgrowth of financial , troubles . and disagreements that followed the sale of the Farmers Protective association to A. Marks & Co. Kerrln was president of the Farmers concern when Marks & Co. offered to buy it. The sale was made with the un derstanding that Kerrln should be em ployed as manager by Marks & Co., and I should receive a certain per cent of the earnings in addition to a fixed salary. After Kerrln went to work there arose a disagreement as to the terms of the sale contract and Kerrln resigned his i position. Marks had him arrested, charging him with embezzling a $17.50 check. He was cleared In police court Kerrln alleges that the .arrest caused , him great mental anguish, damaged his reputation and brought him Into 'public Ignominy. . ' V LOWERING COST OF LIVING How Dei Moines Brought Producer nd Consumer Together Profitably. U 7 vA J i r- Pai. P. Jgotjonj, secretary-treasurer, oi the Greater, Des Aioines-cammiue- gives an instructive account In Clvlo Progress, official organ of the American Civic Al liance, of thl means- adopted to lower the cost ,of living in Iowa's capital and the success of the enterprise. He says: "Although the city of Des Moines, la,, Is the center of the richest agricultural district In the world, the prices of vege tables, fruit and garden 'stuff were so high that ' necessities ' were fast becom ing luxuries. For. Instance, potatoes at one time reached $3 a bushel. All kinds of produce were selling at prices much higher than the average tor former years, some . of the. advance being due to unfavorable growing conditions. Most of the high, cost was due to the neces sity of the dealer's adding a large per ent to the cost Of bis produce to cover delivering charges, clerk hire, rent and profits. Truck gardeners were ' not able to peddle their products from house to I house, because the grocers would then refuse to buy their surplus stock. "The discussion of the high . cost of .living became a fad. The. newspapers featured the subject, and It had Its share' .of attention in the pulpits. The mayor and commissioners took the matter up. fThey announced that' the little plot of lawn at the city hall would be opened as a municipal market. It was . regarded as an experiment, and many of the of ficials were skeptical as to whether It would be successful. The first four or five farmers drove their wagons on the lawn and sold vegetables from the cart "The next day the number doubled. Within a week over 100 farmers were at the market In a month it had become so popular that more than 100 farmers were selling direct to the Des Moines housewives, and the wagons stretched for three blocks along the curb on mar ket days. Ia many instances the . old prices were cut in half; in others the reductions were even lower. It is esti mated that the average reduction has been "about 35 pe rcent Citizens from all sections of the city patronize the market scores . even driving down in automobiles to make purchases. - "Democracy reigns supreme. , Mrs. Banker and .Mrs. Laborer elbow their way good naturedly through , the crowds. 'The variety of produce that can be had at the market Is constantly increas ing. Tou can buy meats from several balers. The ' farmers bring in their ome cured meats. Milk, cream and but ter can be had at lowered prices. Own ers of orchards are greatly benefited by selling cider produced from their sec ond grade, apples that could not have otherwise been marketed in this season of plenty, The thrifty housewife. dresses a few chickens in order to piece' out her pin money." Some prepare pastry that finds a ready market Surplus wanned fruits from farmhouses meet with favor. A small boy tiring of his pet rabbits found an envious boy who was willing to exchange his savings for a ,-air of furry pet. ' "The market place has stopped the agitation as to the high cost of living. It has convinced our people that ttuy can secure their food supplies of the best quality direct from the producer without the- possible chance of a com bination of middlemen. ; "The producers are . benefited, at they are always sure of a market for all they raise. They can find a market to a number of small products that they could not otherwise ' sell." Henry Harshberger, agent for the Bur lington at Moorcroft, Wyo., evolved a get-rlch-qulck plan, but before he had time to ' attach himself to very much wealth he found himself pried loose from his job and also in the custody of an officer. x Harshbarger had a little ticket scalping scheme of his own, but In order to make It work be had to take into partnership all the passengers with . whom be did business. Here's where he fell down and now he Is charged with embezzling. ' The young man, for instance, would sell a passenger a ticket- to Chicago over the Burlington for a small sum. Then the" passenger would get off at Omaha, re turning his ticket to Harshbarger, who would report it unused, thus keeping the money. The plan was so coarse that It went wrong as soon as the first bunch of the "unused" tickets reached the audit ing department of the Burlington, Omaha In the aggregate Harshbarger is no: supposed to have disposed of to exceed half a dozen tickets before his coarse methods of doing business were discov ered, immediately after which . he was placed under arrest- COST OF LIVING COMPARED Income and Ootsro In European Countries and In the United States. With the , co-operation . of the Com mercial Museum of Trieste, Mario Al berti, autbor'of "The Cost of Life," has prepared a study of "The Movement of Prices and Salaries in 1911," which Is pub lished in Italian by Ettore Vram, of Trieste. Mr.. Albetl finds by a comparison of prices in different- countries for four teen years that the upward trend is gen eral, but that the. percentage of in crease is by no means uniform. Using an assumed base figure of. 100, he finds the rise in eight' countries to have Seen as follows: , Percent 1905. 1909. 1910. 19U. 108 118 119 132 1897. ... 97 92 Austria Belgium Canada . Prance . Germany England '. 94 Italy 70 United States .. 90 The United' States very favorably with 84 96 114 100 107 109 80 118 In the 118 105 121 116 120 112 35 126 1897 compared foreign coun- 103 116 120 118 87 132 tries named, the average of prices being lolwer than here, in but two of the seven. In 1901 prices here had become as high as any, though 'matched in Canada and Germany, both highly protected countries. In 1905, 1909 and 1910 United States prices were the highest, and led in height by an increasing margin, Germany and Can ada still following close behind. Ex pressed'' Japercentages,' prices $iad risen here 46. percent In thirteen years; in England,. 25.5 per cent; in Austria, 23 per cent; in Belgium, 22.6 per cent. , Tet the United States Is the country' of j origin of much of the food of the world; of nearly all of Us exported cotton, of lumber and ther first necessities.. i Why, then, do Mr. Albertl's Austrian fellow countrymen and his Italian brothers In race continue tocome heM In such tremendous numbers? This !s shown in another table, where the com paratively stable conditions in England are taken as a standard of comparison: Percent -. ' Rent Food. Costs. Warns. England loo 100 100 ion Belgium ......... 74 98 94 63 Germany ........ 123 118 119 R! France 98 .118 119 38 Austria 180 . 154 155 . 7ii Italy 105 159 148 7 United States .. 207 138 162 23-) From this table it is seen that rent Is the one item that chiefly accounts for the greatly preponderant cost of living in the United States. Provisions still average cheaper here than in Austria or Italy. though more expensive than in the other countries named. But in the United States alone-probably also in' Canada. if It were included In Mr. Albertl's second table the balance of pay against cost of living Is more favorable to the poor map than in England, Belgium, with the lowest wages of all, Is less unfavorable to worklngmen than Austria or Italy, because of its much lower living coBts. Though the cost of living is pretty nearly the same In Germany and Austria for the laboring man, housewives of com merclal and professional families are said to find Berlin a cheaper city to live In than Vienna, and Germany follows next after the United States, England and Belgium as to the worklngman's pros perity. Indeed, social legislation such as old age pensions, accident insurance, etc.. not taken account of In these tables, may make his condition in fact next after that of the working Englishman. But why in this primary market of so many first necessities of life Is the cost of living highest of all in the United States? New York World. , Babies Ihreatened by croup, coughs or colds are soon re lieved by the use of Dr. King's New Dis covery; 50c and $L00. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. , , . ' Persistent Advertising Is the Road to 'BIS Returns,. 'ASSEMf A SNUG FORTUNE How Grover Cleveland' Threw Away Half a Million Profit on a Deal. - Recent sales in Washington In the neighborhood where Grover Cleveland, In his first administration, bought for his own use a country house and estate of acres show that if he had retained It (and Mrs. Cleveland ter him).- the family would be worth $600,009 more today, than it -is. This Washington country home of the Clevelands was acquired soon alter ne was married, and at the i time was quite in the woods, several j miles distant from the center of activity In Washington, and especially from the White House. The president paid less than $1,000 an acre for the property, which consisted of twenty-nine acres, but he spent about $15,000 in improving the old house Which stood on the grounds. The purchase of the president In this neighborhood started things. The real estate speculators took a cue. and real estate In the neighborhood began to hum. and has been humming ever since. Wash ington declared that if Grover Cleveland found this a delightful spot to live In, despite that be could spend his days In the White House, it too, would share his pleasures, and the country proving truly delightful, Washington was eager and is still eager to buy real estate there, and magnificent houses have been put up fn this neighborhood, and streets and roads laid out in it, so that all told, Washington has grown up to this spot,. (1MB df?. H 'it(rFtlfftll tlMMMM1lltl1flf1IMMMIIIMtMIIMHUHUlf Itlty 1 Coprrlfht Utf, Butaua Furniture CVpt C Bless Your Wife and Children witha Cozy, Comfortable Home Experience the pleasant satisfaction of feeling that your wife and children are happy and contented in a pretty home that em bodies every degree of comfort and coziness. Do not delude yourself with the idea that your earnings are not sufficient to buy the furnishings needed this is false modesty.- It is an injustice to yourself as well as to your family.. 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' On account of the Cleveland'' house, the neighborhood has been called Cleveland park, and a park It is. - ' '" -- : i Grover Cleveland ever hated to have himself made ' a1 source of speculation, but he could not help himself when the real estate, In 'consequence of his choice, took a boom,' and he profited, after all, considerably; for after he retired as pres ident the' first time he sold 'the house and his 29 acres, hut for the comfortable sum of S139.C0O, having made tiOO.000 by the Investment"" Nevertheless, as land' In Cleveland park, today is worth at least' $25,000 an acre, If the Clevelands had re tained the estate and it were In their possession today, . the entire Cleveland estate would be worth ' additionally $723,000. The handsome fortune of. $600,000 was passed up ' when Grover Cleveland sold out after be had ceased to be pres ident the first time." - Cleveland . was not going to give spec ulators another chance when he aga'.n became president He again acquired a country house in Washington, but merely rented it Boston Advertiser, Key. to.thejSituaUon Bee-Advertising. BRIDE BALKS AT WORD "OBEY" Ceremony Proceeds When the Bride, (room Agrees to Do Like wise, .. The word "obey" in, the' old Anglican marriage ceremony almost stopped the wedding of M ai Mary Fee and Thomas It Clouder of Springfield, 111., when they appeared before Justice of the Peace Ed ward P. Williams in East St Louis the other day. Before Justice Williams began the cere mony Miss Fee demurely asked him to omit the word "obey" In pronouncing the ceremony. ' When the Justice refused the young woman demurred and had to be urged b) her fiance to proceed. "Well, all right' then. But I dort't in tend to do all the' obeying. ' My husband must obey me, too," she declared. "That's all right, dearie. I'll do Just exactly as you say," Clouder replied. Then the knot was tied. St Louis Re public. - Hla Dullness. ' "You appear to have traveled a great deal," said the first passenger. "Do you find that the people of. any. one locality are more cordial or hospitable than those of another?" .. .. "No." replied the other. "I can't say that I do; most everybody asks me to call again and so" "The idea! You must be popular. "Not at all. I'm a bill collector."-- Catholic Standard and Times. -; ' Simplicity Is Power. . "Did the story he made up to tell his wife nan out all right?" . . "Nope; it was a complete failure." . " "It sounded good to me." - , "Yes, but he invented it when. he was sober, and when he got home and started to try it out he found there were so many big words in it that no man in his condition could pronounce that he had to give it up. -.His next effort will be lu words of one syllable. "Houston Post